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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Jeff M. wrote:

> > What does FreeDOS do better than the latest free version of DR-DOS? 
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> I searched for a 'free' version of DR-DOS. I found a convoluted trail of 
> websites leading to a set of floppy images and an uncertain licensing 
> scheme. What's the real story? FreeDOS has a gpl license and an .iso 
> image (about 11Mb). I see drdos multitasks, but all I really need dos 
> for is a couple of old ham radio apps I can't replace or bear to part 
> with.

DR-DOS has changed owners several times. You can read about it online.  It 
was Caldera DOS for a while.  It went from non-free to free (thru DR DOS 
7.03) and then non-free again.

We got it I think as four 1.44M zip files or something on that order,
rather than an iso image.  It was large (7M?) but you don't need most of
it.  A lot of it is 'help' and a shell.

Back when it was Novell DOS it included Novell Netware with drivers for 
what were then the more popular ethernet cards.
 
> >I think I looked at it once a few years ago and could not get it 
> >working properly but it was probably my fault.
> 
> The same thing happened to me at one time or another. Everything since 
> b9rc3 has installed flawlessly for me with the cd images.

Is there any place you can download just the basics rather than 11MB?

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> Jeff
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